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Transnational Activist Networks and the Emergence of Labor Internationalism in the NAFTA Countries
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Network societies are characterized by social media, media that are supposed to level out power hierarchies, making political participation more inclusive and equal. By developing a typology for studying networking power within activist demands in network societies, such technooptimistic/deterministic assumptions are questioned. This typology is based on Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of socia...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1083-6101
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12150